Quote #7
We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
More from Benjamin Jowett
- Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
- Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.
- One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
- We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, uni…
- I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me.
- Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common …
- Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
- First come I. My name is J-W-TT. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am the Master of this College, What I don't know isn't knowledge.